Comment 4 for bug 882947

Interesting. While it may be true that we don't guarantee that any particular tag will be written out to file, it seems rather non-intuitive for what I would expect. At least, for basic types of tags.

I accidentally discovered this bug when I copied a bunch of mp3's from a data CD and it retained the readonly permissions. Almost lost a bunch of work categorizing them before I realized it. So, definitely want to warn the user that the write failed. I didn't realize you could use the dialog to write lots of files at a time, actually. I suppose that was why it was in a loop.. :p

Hm. I'll think about this, won't have time to look at it again until Sunday. There's very few places that actually write tags, so perhaps just warning the user and storing the tags in exaile's DB is enough. But the idea of the DB presenting a different view to the user than what is actually in the file is a bit disturbing to me.